Regarding Religion

Australia: Research shows religious debates taking heavy toll

New research shows that LGBTIQ Australians feel the current social situation, with the ongoing religious freedom debates, is worse now than during the 2017 same-sex marriage debate.

Saint Lucia: Bishop warns of “devilish and sinful” agenda!

The outspoken bishop expressed concerns that the legal challenge spells trouble. A “devilish and sinful” agenda, he warns, is afoot.

Saint Vincent: Christians march in protest of anti-buggery laws challenge

Thousands of white-clad people, primarily representing the various Christian denominations here, descended on Kingstown yesterday for a march and rally organized to protest the challenge to this country’s anti-buggery laws.

Australia: Religious Discrimination Bill could see 'religious views interfere in patient care'

Equality Australia claimed "these cases matter because the "draft Religious Discrimination Bill 2019 will make it easier for personal religious views to interfere with patient healthcare".

US: Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg wants to build a bridge to the religious right, but tensions with his in-laws highlight difficulties

The Glezman brothers grew up in a Catholic household in Traverse City, Mich., where religion was a quiet underpinning but not a center of conversation. Their memories diverge regarding their parents’ political leanings: Chasten describes his parents as conservative, while Rhyan and Dustin remember them as liberal.

US: Bishop Chairmen Commend Action to Prevent Discrimination Against Faith-based Adoption, Foster Care, and Social Service Providers

We commend the Administration for acting to change a 2016 regulation that threatened to shut out faith-based social service providers, namely adoption and foster care agencies that respect a child’s right to a mother and a father.

Kenya: I was created this way — Kenyan lesbian pastor opens up

Asked whether it is godly to have relations with a fellow woman, Nzilani boldly declared that it is right before God and went ahead to quote John 3:16.

According to her, the verse speaks of God’s unconditional love that encompasses both homosexual and heterosexual relationships.

US: Trump Attacks LGBTQ People, Religious Minorities with Proposed HHS Regulation

Today, HRC responded to news that the Trump-Pence White House has proposed a federal regulation that would strip away nondiscrimination requirements and permit all Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant recipients, notably adoption and foster care agencies, to discriminate against LGBTQ people, and in many circumstances religious minorities and women, and still receive federal funding.